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Lisa Blount
Born	Lisa Suzanne Blount July 1, 1957 Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S.
Died	October 27, 2010(2010-10-27) (aged 53) Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Actress, producer
Years active	1977–2010
Spouse(s)	Christopher Tufty (m. 1982; div. 1998?) Ray McKinnon ​(m. 1998)​
Awards	Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film 2001 The Accountant

Lisa Suzanne Blount (July 1, 1957 – October 27, 2010) was an American film and television actress, and Academy Award-winning producer.

Early life

Blount was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to Margaret Louise Martin and Glen Roscoe Blount, and was raised in Jacksonville, Arkansas. After graduating from Jacksonville High School and studying theatre at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Valdosta State University in Georgia, she landed several small television roles. She returned to college in 1986, this time at San Francisco State University (SFSU), where she completed her degree in Theater Arts and spent the 1986/1987 academic year competing on SFSU's Forensics (Speech and Debate) Team. In the fall of 1987, she was cast as the female lead in the American Conservatory Theater's highly successful revival of the musical Hair.

Career

Blount received a Golden Globe nomination for new star of the year for her performance in An Officer and a Gentleman, and she acted in the 1987 cult horror film Prince of Darkness. Another memorable role was that of Jim Profit's outrageous stepmother Bobbi Stakowski in the short-lived television series Profit. She appeared in season two of Moonlighting in the episode "Sleep Talkin' Guy" (1986).

Blount later became a producer, and with her husband Ray McKinnon, won the Academy Award in 2001 for best live action short film for the film The Accountant. That film also credits her as wardrobe mistress. Blount produced and acted in Chrystal, which starred Billy Bob Thornton.

Death

Blount was found dead in her home in Little Rock, Arkansas by her mother on October 27, 2010. The coroner told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that Blount appeared to have died two days earlier. No foul play was suspected, according to the Pulaski County coroner.

Although the coroner did not release an official cause of death, Blount's mother told RadarOnline.com that her daughter had had idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), in which low levels of platelets keep blood from clotting and lead to bleeding and bruising. "I think that might have been part of the problem when she passed away because when I found her she had a purple look on her neck that looked like blood on the surface".

Filmography

References

1. ^ Kadden, Jack (October 29, 2010). "Lisa Blount, 53, Played Cynical Friend". The New York Times. p. B 11. Retrieved May 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
2. The Accountant, DVD end credits.
3. "Actress Lisa Blount, memorable for 'An Officer and a Gentleman', is found dead at 53", Los Angeles Times. October 27, 2010
4. "Oscar-winning actress Lisa Blount dies at 53", Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. October 27, 2010
5. "Lisa Blount Found Dead on Wednesday", The News of Today; accessed September 3, 2015.
6. "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: An Officer and a Gentleman Star Lisa Blount Lived in Excruciating Pain, Says Mom". October 28, 2010. Retrieved September 3, 2015.

External links

• Lisa Blount at IMDb
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• Lisa Blount at Find a Grave

• 1957 births
• 2010 deaths
• Jacksonville High School (Arkansas) alumni
• People from Fayetteville, Arkansas
• American film actresses
• American film producers
• American television actresses
• Actresses from Little Rock, Arkansas
• Valdosta State University alumni
• Directors of Live Action Short Film Academy Award winners
• 20th-century American actresses
• 21st-century American actresses
• Deaths from blood disease
• American women film producers